Water waver



Sept. 20, 1932. A. GOLDEN 1,878,842

WATER WAVER Filed May 22, 1931 mum Patented Sept. 20, i 1932 um'rsosrrs FATE-J?- "FFi CE ALZADA GOLDEN, OF LA. FAYETTE, INDIANA WATER Application 'filed May 22,

This invention aims to provide a simple means whereby human hair may be waved, and although a preferred form has been shown, it will be understood that a mechanic,

working within the scope of what is claimed, may make changes, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Figure 1 is a top plan,

Figure 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1,

Figure 3 is aside elevation, the device be ing opened,

Figure 4 is a section on the line 44 of Figure 1,

Figure 5 is a similar section, showing a modification.

The device may be made out of any suitable material, such as light metal. It comprises a loop-shaped top 1, across which extends a stop 2, the top 1 having depending flanges 3 provided with teeth 4, which may be shaped as desired. The flanges 3 carry upper ribs 5, and lower ribs 6, forming longitudinal tracks. In the tracks 56, a slide 8 in the form of an open frame, is mounted to reciprocate, the slide being provided at its ends with upstanding finger pieces 9, located on opposite sides of the stop 2. The slide 8 carries 21. depending comb 10, including teeth .30 11. A latch 7 is pivoted to one end of the top 1.

The base 12 is loop-shaped, and has upstanding flanges 14 which are spaced at 15 from the flanges 3 and the teeth 4 of the top 85 1 when the device is closed, as shown in Figures 2 and 4. The flanges 3 and 14 are somewhat shorter than the top 1 and the base 12, respectively, and are connected at one end by. pivot elements 16, the adjacent ends of the top 1 and ofthe base 12 forming fingers pieces 17.

The hair is wet with water, or with any good setting solution. The device is opened, as in Figure 3, and then is closed down on the hair, as shown in Figure 2, the latch 7 being engaged with the base 12. The slide 8 is moved endwise, by one of the finger pieces 9, until one of the finger pieces 9 abuts against the stop 2. This puts a wave, in one direction, in the hair, and the device is permitted WAVER 1931. Serial No. 539,333.

to remain on the hair, until the hair has dried to the desired extent. .Then the device is shifted crosswise on the hair and the slide 8 is moved in the opposite direction, until the corresponding finger piece 9 abuts against the stop 2, and the hair is permitted to dry again. By such a procedure, or by a similar procedure, the hair is waved. The teeth 4 hold the hair, the teeth 11 move the intermediate portions of the hair, to make the wave, and the space at 15 lets the hair move enough to make the wave, but does not permit the hair to slip. In opening the device, the finger pieces 17 are pinched together.

In Figure 5, parts hereinbefore described have been designated by numerals previously used, with the sufix a. The modification consists in making the tracks 5a-6a as'separate pieces, and securing them tothe flanges 3a.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is A device for waving the hair, comprising straight upper and lower frames, hingedly connected adjacent to one end, the frames being open and loop-shaped, to give a good view of the hair that is being waved,'theframes having oppositely-projecting, transversely-spaced flanges along their longitudinal edges, the flanges of the upper member so having depending teeth, the flanges of the upper member having open-ended longitudinal tracks on their inner sides, there being a cross bar on the upper frame and extended across the same, a slide mounted to .reciprocate in the tracks and provided at its ends with finger pieces that extend upwardly above the upper frame far enough to provide for the convenient manipulation of the slide the finger pieces being located on op-. posite sides of the cross bar, and being engageable one at a time with the cross bar, to limit the travel of the slide, and to prevent the slide from becoming disengaged fromthe tracks, and a plate-like comb depending from the slide and located immediately under the finger pieces, the comb having teeth which cooperate with the teeth of the flanges of the upper member in'waving the hair, the slide being shorter than the comb Crv . and being of open frame-like construction,

which, with the loop shape of the frames, makes the comb and the hair engaged thereby Visible and accessible throughout practi- 6 cally the entire length of the comb.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my si ature. a ALZADA GOLDEN. 

